Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1826. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: OCLC records ten copies (including a second or variant issue). A collection of almost 90 literary anecdotes, including ones about Burns, Byron, Shelley, Boswell and John Gay, interspersed with occasional... More

London: Printed by J. Hughs and sold by T. Warner, 1732. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC N65830 records one copy (Chicago); NCBEL II, 361; Griffith 269. The first attempt at a collection of writings, primarily verse, letters and notices, including five epigrams by Alexander Pope, from the Grub Street... More

London: William Pickering, 1851. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: OCLC records six copies (Harvard, State Library of South Australia, Queensland, BL, Cambridge & National Library of Scotland). An anonymous philosophical poem in 35 parts of three and four stanzas each, handsomely printed by Charles Whittingham for Pickering. Inscribed on the... More

London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1781. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T32385 records six copies in the British Isles and three in the US (Getty, HRC & Yale). A satirical review of an imaginary exhibition by real artists at the Royal Academy, dedicated to Joshua Reynolds, a founder and... More

London: Printed by Malachi****, for Edith Bates, Relict of the Aforesaid Mr. Bates, and sold by W. Owen, 1756. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T77673; Block, The English Novel, page 140. A forerunner to Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, with numerous parallels in style and... More

London: Printed for T. Caslon and Sold by J. Smith, and M. Jackson, 1759. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: ESTC T10583, which records four copies in the UK (BL, Cambridge, Rylands, Trinity) and five in the US (Boston Public, Duke, Newberry, two at Yale). A celebratory poem in four cantos... More